Posted by Heartbourne on Friday, November 20th, 2009 - 5 Comments
A Tribute to Addons is a column featuring new, cool, or useful addons. Send a tweet to @Projectlore with your suggestions, or leave a comment. Blue Rune Circles in SexyMap I’ve been getting lots of questions asking me about my mini-map addon that I use in my videos. Its called SexyMap, and its fast become a staple ... More
Posted by Heartbourne on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 - 19 Comments
There is a strange blue post that our commenter Vexklythor tipped us off to that implies that patch 3.3 will not be live until late December at the earliest. The post was in response to a forum post about the recent background downloader performing very poorly. Quote: We only provide mirror links for full client patches. ... More
Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 - 15 Comments
Forget about other video games, I find it difficult enough to split my play time across multiple characters. Despite my best efforts, that is exactly what I have been doing lately. Over the past month I have put serious time in to not two, but three alternates avatars and my trusty bank alt. Solidsamm hasn’t ... More
Posted by pixiestixy on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 - 11 Comments
Dedicated Icecrown Citadel Raiders in the upcoming Patch 3.3 will have a new, glorious armored Frost Wyrm mount to work toward. Blizzard blue poster Ancilorn over on the European forums confirmed Wednesday that the armored Frost Wyrm mount previously data-mined at MMO-Champion will indeed be the next hot raiding reward. Here’s exactly what was posted: There will ... More
Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - 17 Comments
Oh Blizzard, you’re so sneaky! With a notice surreptitiously tucked away at the bottom of the launcher, and a download utility that chugs away at forthcoming patches minimized on your taskbar, you wouldn’t even realize you were downloading anything at all unless you were looking for it! But if you’ve used your World of Warcraft ... More
Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - 10 Comments
We expected it might the case for some time now, but Blizzard has confirmed it: Icecrown Citadel will subject players to gated progression in an attempt to stretch the content out as far as possible. However, as you will see below, it gets a little bit more complicated than just restricting you from accessing certain ... More
Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - 13 Comments
My adventure into old school instancing has lead me to one definitive conclusion; everyone is a critic. Everyone believes they know your class better than you, something I can be guilty of when it comes to dagger-equipped rogues. The five person team that I joined to experience the old world is no different. In fact, ... More
Posted by pixiestixy on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - 6 Comments
The first few times I ran Vault of Archavon, I was lost. It was my first real foray into 10-man content, and I was trying to keep Archavon, Emalon and Koralon straight. Which one overcharged adds? Which cast a nasty fire that you had to get out of immediately? Is it Lightning Nova or Chain ... More
